Planet Fitness Coming To Forest Hills Luxury Building This Summer

FOREST HILLS, QUEENS — Neighbors in Forest Hills will have a new place to workout come summer.

Planet Fitness is planning to open a location by MacDonald Park "early this summer," a spokesperson confirmed with Patch.

The gym, which will be located in the ground-floor of a new luxury building at 107-02 Queens Boulevard, has been in the works since 2020, when Forest Hills' community board first approved its permits, the Queens Post reported.

Some neighbors, however, wish that the space was being used for something else.

"I was hoping for a Trader Joes," wrote one neighbor on Facebook in a thread about the new gym, echoing pleas from other neighbors that more supermarkets open in the neighborhood. (Residents have hoped for a Trader Joes in the past, too.)

Another neighbor is "happy" to see an "affordable gym" opening in the neighborhood (right now memberships start at $10 per-month) but agrees it "would also be great to have a good supermarket."

Up the block from the proposed Planet Fitness, though, a supermarket is slated to open in another luxury building.

Developers have pledged to include a supermarket in a nearby Queens Boulevard luxury building, since a Key Foods was demolished in order to make space for the apartments. That development, located at 105-02 Queens Boulevard, is slated to open in 2023, Patch reported.

Once it opens, the Planet Fitness on Queens Boulevard will operate 24 hours a day on weekdays, and from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, the spokesperson said.

The Queens Boulevard outpost will be the gym's seventh location in Queens, but its first in Forest Hills.

Its other locations are located in Jamaica, Howard Beach, Jackson Heights, Astoria, and Long Island City.